Opera’s MAMA analyses the spread and use of web technologies

The Opera guys have created a project called MAMA – “Metadata Analysis and Mining Application”. It is designed to trawl the web and analyse what technologies and techniques are actually being used in web pages.

Their intial study results are in, taken from 3 and a half million URLs.

Interestingly, tables are still right up there with most popular tags, suggesting there are still a lot of people using tables for layouts, particularly when you see this quote: